Article - Nonprofits in Rural America: Overcoming the Resource Gap

check out this small study from Bridgespan. In addition to the rural financial resource gap, is someone going to look at the other rural capacity gaps, such as work force, governance, etc.?

Article - Nonprofits in Rural America: Overcoming the Resource Gap

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my colleague Carol Miller responded:

Thanks for sending the link. I have been tracking foundation impacts on rural and frontier communities for about 20 years and am attaching a couple of items.

Max Baucus has been the spokesperson for the philanthropic divide identified by the Big Sky Institute in 2005. Here is an interesting 2006 speech from Max.

I am also attaching a 1990 article by Karl Stauber, longtime foundation president at a number of foundations. Karl’s article describes how yo-yo funding has hurt rural America.

My current position is that rural America is not dying, it is being killed through both intentional and unintentional policies.